Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto

Drama Writer
Saadat Hasan Manto was born on 11 May 1912 at Samrala in Punjab's Ludhiana district. Manto worked for All India Radio during World War II and was a successful screen writer in Bombay before moving to Pakistan during Partition. He wrote over a dozen films, including Eight Days, Chal Chal Re Naujawan and Mirza Ghalib. The last one was shot after Manto moved to Pakistan in January 1948.

Manto was tried for obscenity half-a-dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Two of his greatest stories - Colder than Ice and The Return - were among works considered 'obscene' by the Pakistani censors.

Manto's Toba Tek Singh, considered his greatest work by many, was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him. His controversial career in literary, journalistic, radio scripting and film-writing spread over more than two decades in which he published twenty-two collections of stories, seven collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, and a novel. He died several months short of his 43rd birthday in January 1955 in Lahore.

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Mein woh hoon jo kisi ne kaha:
HAM NAGHMA SARA KUCH GHAZLON KE HAM SOORAT GAR KUCH KHWAABON KE
BE JAZBA E SHOQ SUNAYEN KIYA KOI KHWAAB NA HO TO BATAYEN KIYA

Our region has produced a number of class writers in various fields of literature.

What I understand is that we need to develop habbits of reading in our general public. Paksitan is a large populated country, no doubt, if, we and their families will NOT go through very sad financial crisis.

I may suggest here that government can involve industrialists to have Think Tanks Teams and Literary Trusts

to take care such literary figures who are financially weak.

Moreover, literary books can also be published in low cost under such Trust/s.

M Ashraf Siddiqui wrote:

Our region has produced a number of class writers in various fields of literature.

What I understand is that we need to develop habbits of reading in our general public. Paksitan is a large populated country, no doubt, if, we and their families will NOT go through very sad financial crisis.

I may suggest here that government can involve industrialists to have Think Tanks Teams and Literary Trusts

to take care such literary figures who are financially weak.

Moreover, literary books can also be published in low cost under such Trust/s.

I am a writer myself and I know that often you feel like buring all the manuscripts screaming "GET US PUBLISHED!" but one can either publish books or feed the family, the govt. can provide loans for writers but the problem here is that loans are for salaried people, we don't recieve a salary, but may be a tax that can be filled on istallments to aid us may help, (I mean that they get our books published and share the income of money with us)...people here don't even get complemetary marks in exams for writing books rather they get it for knowing how to fire a kalashankov and kill people....

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Mein woh hoon jo kisi ne kaha:
HAM NAGHMA SARA KUCH GHAZLON KE HAM SOORAT GAR KUCH KHWAABON KE
BE JAZBA E SHOQ SUNAYEN KIYA KOI KHWAAB NA HO TO BATAYEN KIYA

Kindly I need your views on my suggestion of a LITERARY TRUST.

Please if you may like to read again my views. I will appreciate.

Shahzaibkhan wrote:

M Ashraf Siddiqui wrote:

Our region has produced a number of class writers in various fields of literature.

What I understand is that we need to develop habbits of reading in our general public. Paksitan is a large populated country, no doubt, if, we and their families will NOT go through very sad financial crisis.

I may suggest here that government can involve industrialists to have Think Tanks Teams and Literary Trusts

to take care such literary figures who are financially weak.

Moreover, literary books can also be published in low cost under such Trust/s.

I am a writer myself and I know that often you feel like buring all the manuscripts screaming "GET US PUBLISHED!" but one can either publish books or feed the family, the govt. can provide loans for writers but the problem here is that loans are for salaried people, we don't recieve a salary, but may be a tax that can be filled on istallments to aid us may help, (I mean that they get our books published and share the income of money with us)...people here don't even get complemetary marks in exams for writing books rather they get it for knowing how to fire a kalashankov and kill people....

Excellent! Well Said!

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Sorry for my poor english!

M Ashraf Siddiqui wrote:

Our region has produced a number of class writers in various fields of literature.

What I understand is that we need to develop habbits of reading in our general public. Paksitan is a large populated country, no doubt, if, we and their families will NOT go through very sad financial crisis.

I may suggest here that government can involve industrialists to have Think Tanks Teams and Literary Trusts

to take care such literary figures who are financially weak.

Moreover, literary books can also be published in low cost under such Trust/s.

I think you may change your LAYOUT over Pakistan!
Because I NEVER seen a person who have only 1 thing to do against his own country, and that is blame and blame!
Try to think positive. You need it.

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Sorry for my poor english!

well, about the literary trust, I can't say much because our govt. is not very fond of spending money rand that is what the trust needs for administartion work.....

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Mein woh hoon jo kisi ne kaha:
HAM NAGHMA SARA KUCH GHAZLON KE HAM SOORAT GAR KUCH KHWAABON KE
BE JAZBA E SHOQ SUNAYEN KIYA KOI KHWAAB NA HO TO BATAYEN KIYA

	M Ashraf Siddiqui wrote:
	Kindly I need your views on my suggestion of a LITERARY TRUST. Please if you may like to read again my views. I will appreciate.

You are right, but hakoomat is a wrong one, fauji only knows how to fire bullets and kill people!

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Mein woh hoon jo kisi ne kaha:
HAM NAGHMA SARA KUCH GHAZLON KE HAM SOORAT GAR KUCH KHWAABON KE
BE JAZBA E SHOQ SUNAYEN KIYA KOI KHWAAB NA HO TO BATAYEN KIYA